> Can you tell me what the following change in CVS offers
> 
> Added lock icon for protected logbooks
> 
> Does this relate to the request in article 309

No, unfortunately not (yet). I'm still working on the problem described in 
elog:309. This "lock" icon only shows you in the logbook selection page which 
logbooks are public and which are protected by passwords (was another 
request).

> I have a question concerning the "Selection page" ELOG.cfg parameter.
> I was wondering if it is possible to specify a complete (absolute) URL 
such 
> as http://www.myserver.com/my_elog_menu.htm.
> 
> I need this type of configuration because we actually need to have the 
> custom selection page sitting on a different server from the one where 
ELOG 
> is run.

I added this possibility to the source code (->CVS), although it's not clear 
to me how this should work for you. If you don't have access to the server 
where elogd is running, how should elogd then redirect you to somewhere else?

> if you put 
> 
> Use Email From = $user_email
> 
> we receive in the adress 'my email adress'
> 
> how to avoid  the maito: prefix ?
> it gives problems when you vwant to reply from outlook
> 
> it's ok in elog to send mail from IExplorer

I fixed that problem. Please get the updated version from CVS.

> > I have a question concerning the "Selection page" ELOG.cfg parameter.
> > I was wondering if it is possible to specify a complete (absolute) URL 
> such 
> > as http://www.myserver.com/my_elog_menu.htm.
> > 
> > I need this type of configuration because we actually need to have the 
> > custom selection page sitting on a different server from the one where 
> ELOG 
> > is run.
> 
> I added this possibility to the source code (->CVS), although it's not 
clear 
> to me how this should work for you. If you don't have access to the server 
> where elogd is running, how should elogd then redirect you to somewhere 
else?

Thank you Stefan,
It's not that we wouldn't have access to the ELOGD server, it's the fact that 
we're trying to create our own dynamic selection page (with a more detailed 
overview of the content of different logbooks - such as the date of last 
logbook entry, number of entries in last week, month etc.) based on the 
information we send from ELOG to our SQL server. 

So in this case the user logs on to ELOGD (currently run on Linux) then will 
be redirected to the selection page on a Windows machine (ASP getting all 
necessary information from a MS SQL DB) and the dynamically created links 
refer back to the ELOGD Linux server. May seem a little too complicated but 
works fine.

Tomas

> We are using elog as a small database system, today we came across a 
> problem where 2 people were editing the same record and the first one to 
> submit his changes were overwritten when the second person submitted his.
> 
> Is there anyway to lock a logbook record when someone has pressed EDIT, 
> maybe set a flag in the logbook entry so it has to be unlocked when its 
> submitted by the originator or by an administrator.

I added some code experimentally to avoid double editing. Whenever a message 
is edited, a "stop" sign is displayed in the message list next to the edited 
messages and a warning is issued on the single message display page. If the 
original editing has been given up (browser closed) one can just ignore this 
message. I prefer this solution in comparision with a real locking, since 
the mechanisms for unlocking a stale message by the administrator is not 
necessary. Get the newest code from CVS, get also themes/default/stop.gif to 
display the stop sign, and let me know what you think.

Is it possible to make the logbook summary screen sort differently
 
For example on a customer name field it displays as follows :-

AEF
AXA
Abc
Acd
Ade
Aef
aaa
aab

Its sorting alphabetically but is putting upper case characters before 
their lower case equivalents, which in a customer list where lots of 
initials are used its making the list look non sorted rather than truely 
based on the character regardless of case.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks Ill grab it tomorrow and try it,

when is the new version out btw ?

> Thanks Ill grab it tomorrow and try it,
> 
> when is the new version out btw ?

When I say "under CVS", I mean what I said in elog:233. The new version I 
will release probably next week.